Comparing Exeter Poems The Wanderer, Wife's Lament

If fifty people were put into the same room and made to experience the same thing, every person would have a different story. The things that are endured shape the characters, but how they choose to cope with what is handed to them, shapes them even more. The characters featured the most in Storming Heaven are going through rough things, but each character is different. The two poems that were selected were A Place with Promise and Tobacco and Curry Leaves, both of these show how a place can shape a person. The environment that the characters are in contribute to how they act, how they live, and the type of people they are around.

The poem “Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe, was his last poem. It was published after he died. The poem is structured by six stanzas, the rhyme pattern differing slightly in each other. The feelings transmitted by each stanza shows how the love of a man for a woman doesn 't stop upon death. This poem is written with so much feeling that it gives real emotion to every word it 's written.

Poems are meant to make a person see, think, or feel something. Robert Frost, a well-known poet, uses them and nature as a way to symbolize life. Robert frost uses elements of nature as a metaphor in “The Road Not Taken”. Robert frost uses elements of nature as a metaphor in “Nothing Gold Can Stay”. Robert frost uses elements of nature as a metaphor in “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”.

Claudia Emerson was an exemplary late-blooming writer. At age 57, Emerson published an expressive collection of poems, which describes the aspects of the past in relation to the present. In Late Wife, her Pulitzer Prize winning collection, she exudes her raw emotions from her personal life in the form of letters. In Emerson’s poems, “Natural History Exhibits” “Artifact,” and “Eight Ball,” she elucidates the aftermaths of divorce and death. Upon getting a divorce, Claudia Emerson initially grieves the memories of her first marriage.

The poem "Kindness" by Naomi Shihab Nye speaks about how you experience kindness and what it really is. The main point in this poem is that in order to experience people's kindness you need to experience hurt, sorrow, and loneliness. The author says that when you loose everything and have no one or thing that when kindness comes along it lifts you up "and then goes with you everywhere/ like a shadow or a friend" (33-34). When portraying this message the author uses a sad but hopeful tone to send the message she wants to say. This tone helps portray the message because you can feel how sad someone is when they are lonely and they have nothing.

Thomas Cole’s The Voyage of Life: Manhood, embodies the stress and hardship associated with maturation, and the confusion and turmoil that one faces when transitioning from adolescence to adulthood. Painted in 1842, during the peak of Romanticism, the image depicts a fearful man, the Everyman, sailing down a roaring river surrounded by a gnarled tree and jagged rocks in a golden boat. A cliff hangs over the river, and the sky above is dark with only a small glimpse of light in the horizon. In the top left corner, the image of an angel penetrates the threatening clouds and watches over the man, though he does not notice her.

I’d never heard music like this before, Such loft voices, masculine and clear, And magisterial- - Credo, Gloria and Sanctus. I had never known till then, Felt and though, such sure serenity, Blood into Christ, wine to his blood, and time Existed only in the Rome of squares And shops and fountains. (557) The speaker in “Easter Vigil and Mass” similarly responds to “The Blessing of new fire,” “the church with the covers on statues removed,” “And the Paschal the centre of the world.”

Do you believe you are safe in church? In the poem Ballad of Birmingham Dudley Randall wrote about a church bombing. This bombing changed so many lives for the worse. According to the Hartford Institute of Religion Research, more than 40 percent of Americans go to church weekly.

The thirteenth poem depicts a static scene as it conveys the impression of a moment that marks the lovers’ separation. The speaker addresses the beloved who leans against a willow at the riverside with an air of defensiveness after she declined to join him in a boat. The poem’s two sections divide the description of her cold distance from his invitation and sad resignation at her refusal. The beloved is the central character in the first quatrain.

Romanticism and Nature Topic chosen for my research is based on romanticism and nature. Romanticism and nature are almost of same meaning to each other. Romanticism (also the romantic era or the Romantic period) was an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of 18th century and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850. To set a typical example we can take it as romantic lyric which suggest a mystical relationship with nature. Many romantic poets has its ability to connect romanticism with nature through their expression of love, imagination and his experience in a natural setting to go beyond his/her everyday life.